Aribo LawrencePrincipal Climate Change Officer/UNFCCC Art.6 Focal

point, UgandaClimate Change Unit,

Ministry of Water and Environment Expert Meeting on Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development in Africa, Mauritius 20-22 Mar 2013

Climate Change (CC) indeed is a crucial issue at global, national, sub-national to local level.

It’s adverse impacts pinch worse the Developing especially the rural poor in the Least Developing Countries (LDCs’), due to: Low level of awareness, Limited capacity (Financial, technical,

institutional and technological).Expert Meeting on Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development in Africa, Mauritius 20-22 Mar 2013

Therefore there is need for urgent action on the UNFCCC article 6 pillars: including education, training, public

awareness & participation, not undermining access to information and international cooperation

Ref: Agreed COP18/Doha 8 year work programme on Art. 6

Expert Meeting on Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development in Africa, Mauritius 20-22 Mar 2013

CC Institutional arrangement in place Sensitisation on climate change of key stake

holders (seminars/workshops)▪ Parliamentarians; Permanent secretaries’;

Journalists’, district local government officials; CSO’s and teachers’ representatives including curriculum developers, students farmers, and some community members.

Integrating climate change into the curriculum (upper primary, lower secondary and Institutions of higher learning)

Expert Meeting on Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development in Africa, Mauritius 20-22 Mar 2013

• Climate Change integrated in national development plan

• Draft Climate change policy and its costed implementation strategy awaiting approval by Cabinet

• Developing Climate change capacity building strategy for human resources and skills development

• Developing Second National communication (SNC) including section on CC education and awareness

• Climate change mainstreaming guidelines for sectors and district local governments ready for national validation by stake holders

• Establishment of some few Climate Change resource centres

• Developing training material/manual and implementing training on gender and climate change

In the process, 3 pilot trainings so far undertaken for 19 district local governments, to test and validate the training manual.

• Piloting NAPAs’ in 3 ecosystems (mountainous, semi-arid and lowland), as demos at local community level

• CC awareness in public events e.g. annual Agric trade shows, international days

• TV and radio talk shows, News paper inserts/articles, and policy briefs

• Screening documentaries on climate change (http://www.ccu.go.ug)Expert Meeting on Climate Change Education for Sustainable

Development in Africa, Mauritius 20-22 Mar 2013

Though in Uganda some key output areas have been reached, quite a lot is needed to attain results: Adequate CC awareness at various levels Adequate means of implementation

(financial technical and technological) to cover the whole country

Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation (CCAM) be addressed with gender disaggregation

Expert Meeting on Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development in Africa, Mauritius 20-22 Mar 2013

The struggle continues

‘’ Live or Perish ‘’

Experts’ Implement, Monitor and advise (IMA) on

Climate Change (CC) Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)